>> trevor: hey, everybody! welcome to another episode of "the daily social distancing show." i'm trevor noah, and it is w day i'm trevor noah and its now day 64 of us staying inside to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus. and here's your quarantine tip of the day: if you're cutting your own hair in quarantine and you accidentally cut too deep, just fill in the patch with hair from somewhere else. i got hair from four body parts up here. which ones? i'll never tell. anyway, on tonight's episode: jordan klepper joins a protest, how you can use zoom to send someone to their death, and the president of the united states is on drugs. so let's get into it! welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> announcer: from trevor's couch in new york city to your

couch somewhere in the world, this is "the daily social distancing show," with trevor noah." ♪ ♪ >> trevor: sunshine! it's something we all could use right now, second only to moonshine. and while i can't legally give you my homemade backyard hooch, i can give you some good news of the day. ♪ ♪ let's kick things off with chuck e. cheese-- ground zero for the next pandemic. while most restaurants in the age of coronavirus have switched over to delivery, chuck e. cheese was faced with the ultimate dilemma: how do you get people to order your crappy food when the only reason they ever came to your establishment was to entertain their kids and buy weed from the assistant manager? well, it turns out, all it takes is a little old-fashioned american >> reporter: chuck e. cheese is

accused of tricking some grubhub users. several customers say they placed orders at pasqually's pizza & wings. they thought they were supporting a local business. every address for pasqually's routes back to a chuck e. cheese. well, turns out pasqually is the name of one of those animatronic band members you see in chuck e. cheese, the fake band. the parent company for chuck e. cheese says it wasn't trying to fool anyone. it said pasqually's is meant to be a premium pizza that's a little more upscale than you'd find at a kid's birthday party. (sot) >> trevor: yes, chuck e. cheese has been pretending to be a different place online to try and sell pizzas. this is officially the weirdest episode of "catfish" ever. by the way, i can also just say i do not trust the person who uncovered this sciem? because what adult knows the flavor of chuck e. cheese pizza so well? ( guy ) "wait a minute... this is chuck e. cheese! i eat this everyday!" ( cop ) "all lright, we're going to investigate, but after that, we're investigating you, too, weirdo." and speaking of ingenuity, in south korea, one soccer team got a little too creative about how to fill empty stadium seats. >> reporter: a soccer team in

south korea is in hot water after being accused of using "adult companion" dolls to fill empty seats at their stadium. f.c. seoul wanted to fill empty seats with mask-wearing mannequins at its home opener on sunday. but some observers of the game on tv noticed that these fake fans looked a lot like sex dolls. the club has issued an apology on social media and claims they were assured by the manufacturer that they were simply meant to be realistic mannequins. >> trevor: yes, this soccer team thought they were getting mannequins to fill the stands, but instead, they received sex dolls, which means somewhere out there, there's some guys who ordered sex dolls but ended up with regular mannequins. "ooooh yeah..... "ooooh yeah... what's wrong, baby? you seem like you're somewhere else tonight. talk to me." now, i'm going to be honest, man. i don't get what the problem is because, yes, they might be sex

dolls, but they're not being used for sex. in fact, when you think about it, any doll can be a sex doll. just ask 9-year-old me and he-man. our love was the power of greyskull. and, finally, one ray of sunshine coronavirus has brought us during these troubled times is that people are finding cleaner and healthier ways to get from point "a" to point "b." >> reporter: if you are thinking aout buying a bike, you may be prepared for a long wait. the u.s is reportedly facing a bicycle shortage. bike sales are through the roof right now since the pandemic began. more people are turning to bikes to avoid public transportation or try to stay in shape and get fresh air. sales of bikes jumped 121% in march. >> trevor: yes, it turns out more people are buying more bicycles than ever before. and i get it-- i mean, there's nothing better than biking on a nice day, cruising down the street, breathing fresh air, having a bug fly into your mouth, coughing uncontrollably, almost throwing up. oh, man, bikes are the best!

bikes are like a peloton that let's you ride away from your husband who's telling you to lose weight. but just remember, folks: with more people biking than ever, bike responsibly. i'm looking at you, cirque du soleil! that's not socially distant. all right that's it for the sunshine. let's get straight into the headlines. our first headline comes from france, the only country that allows you to add mistresses to your family cell phone plan. as the country begins to reopen after the pandemic lockdown, one of the things officials are insisting on is that everyone must keep their face covered in public. but they have very strict ideas of what that face covering should look like. >> reporter: there is concern in france that racism is at the heart of who can and cannot cover their faces and, specifically, how they do that. face masks are now mandatory in public in france. there are cameras in the metro system and other public places to make sure people comply.

>> reporter: but niqabs and burqas, face coverings worn by some muslim women, are still banned. while critics see a contradiction, the french interior minister reminded people this week that the ban on religious face coverings will remain in place. >> trevor: okay, i'm sorry, but this is the most ridiculous thing the french have ever done. and, yes, that includes giving cigarettes the right to vote. i mean, really, how does this make sense? you have to cover your face, but if your face covering is too muslim-y, then it's not okay. france is so anti-muslim, if they found a passage in the koran that said, "french is the best language," the french would say, "we will not speak french anymore. we will only be speaking in english. si vous plait. meanwhile, here in america, one of the many things struggling to reopen right now is the court system. how do you hold a socially

distanced trial? well, one county in texas is figuring it out. >> reporter: the first virtual jury trial ever in texas is beginning today in collin county. it will be a civil case where the decision is nonbinding, jurors and the parties involved will take part remotely online. a collin county judge says a lot more time and research is needed before we see any criminal trials conducted this way. >> trevor: yes, in texas, they're now holding trials over zoom. and this is either the best or worst idea in history because, on the one hand, at least now you get to do jury duty from home. but on the other hand, i don't know if i want my fate decided by someone who was secretly watching netflix in another tab. "what? what? oh, yeah, she definitely fed her husband to the tigers." also, it's going to be pretty awkward when a lawyer is trying to deliver an impassioned speech and someone's baby interrupts in the background because they didn't mute their zoom. "ladies and gentlemen of the jury, just take a moment to think about this horrific crime--" ( baby laughing )

but let's move on to the state of the coronavirus pandemic in america. as always, there's good news, there's bad news, and then there's news that just seems to come out of nowhere. the good news is that the curve is flattening, and increased testing is helping officials track the disease. the bad news is that the u.s. death toll is still climbing towards 100,000. and because of the virus's long incubation period, it will be weeks before we know if states have opened too soon. and today's "out of nowhere," news is that a new study has found additional symptoms of covid-19 may include "delirium, confusion and agitation." and, guys, i'm sorry man, this is now way too many symptoms for one disease. corona symptoms are like members of the wu-tang clan-- you think you know all of them, then you find out about another one you had no idea existed. i mean, at this point, it feels like the same way we search webmd to see what we have. coronavirus is using webmd for inspiration on what it should give us. "ooh, delirium.

i like that one. i should try that." plus, this isn't the most useful information, because "delirium, agitation, and confusion" are also the symptoms of just being in quarantine. i'm getting delirium from watching the news, i'm agitated time, and i'm always confused about the days of the week. what day is it? wed-nes-day? is that even how you say it? all right, i've got to go clorox my groceries, but when we come back, we'll find out why president trump might be poisoning himself. stick around.

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♪ shining through ♪ i see your true colors. ♪ that's why i love you >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily social distancing show." our big story is about donald j. trump, president of the united states and loving

father of two out of five. last night, we talked about the latest trump political scandal, the firing of the state department's inspector general. and this is a weird one because when the story was first being told, what we heard was that trump fired this i.g. because he was investigating whether mike pompeo had used government employees to do personal errands for him, but then, later on, it came out that the i.g. was also investigating whether pompeo illegally bypassed congress to sell billions of dollars of weapons to saudi arabia. so, yesterday, trump was asked why he fired the inspector general, and his answer was pure gold. >> i don't know him. never heard of him. i was happy to do it. mike requested that i do it. he should have done it a long time ago, in my opinion. he is an obama appointment, and he had some difficulty. but i just don't know who he is. i really-- i don't know. i never heard his name. >> trevor: no, man, i'm sorry,

guys. is it just me or is this like the 50th time trump has fired someone he's never heard of? i bet pretty soon he's going to start firing random people who don't even work for him. yeah, you're going to show up for work one day, and your boss will be like, "bad news, bob. you've been fired by the president." >> "wait, can he even do that?" >> "probably not, but you're just not worth fighting over." so there was a lot going on with this story: shady arms sales, misuse of government staff and taxpayer money, the president interfering with government oversight. and usually, i mean, usually, this would blow up into a major scandal. but trump, as always, found a way to drop a bomb that completely switches everything up. >> reporter: president trump reveals he is on a daily dose of an unproven drug to protect against the coronavirus. >> reporter: in the white house, surrounded by restaurant executives, the president made the stunning announcement as an off-the-cuff remark. >> a lot of good things have come out about the hydroxy.

a lot of good things have come out. >> reporter: hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine, right now, yeah. a couple of weeks ago, i started taking it. >> the president said he's take the drug as a preventive, not because he tested positive or had any symptoms. >> reporter: can you explain, sir, though, what is the evidence that it has a preventive effect? >> here we go. you ready? here's my evidence. i get a lot of positive calls about it. and i say, "hey, what do you have to lose?" okay? what do you have to lose? >> trevor: no, no, no, no, no, no, no! are you serious? trump has been experimenting with hydroxychloroquine? the same drug the f.d.a. said no one should be taking for coronavirus outside of a hospital? that drug. where they said, don't try it.

and i'm not going to lie-- i feel so bad for this guy's secret service, because they've had more on their plate with trump than ever before. can you imagine a day in the day of a life of a secret service agent. "keeping my eyes peeled for snipers, and we're all safe-- mr. president, no! what's in your mouth!? what's in your mouth. say aaah! mr. president, say ahhh! at this point, what unhealthy thing is trump not doing? he's taking hydroxychloroquine, eats fast food every single day. i wouldn't be surprised if there's an ancient cave painting and in the middle of all the other cavemen we find trump "fake news. i never touched that dinosaur." now, as with anything trump says, no one knows if he's even telling the truth about taking cindhydroxy chloroquine. maybe he's just trying to distract people from the inspector general firings, or the fact that over 90,000 americans have died from coronavirus, or that his most trusted advisor is actually one of those south korean soccer dolls. we'll never know.

but if it is true, it's concerning, because hydroxychloroquine, at best, is unproven as a treatment for coronavirus. at worst, at worst, it could make you more likely to have a heart attack. so trump is either taking a dangerous, ineffective drug, or he's lying about doing it for the lulz. either way, people are worried, people including nancy pelosi, speaker of the house and world's most famous cat clock. in fact, she went on cnn last night to voice her serious concerns about the president's playing doctor on himself. >> as far as the president is concerned, he's our president, and i would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group, morbidly obese, they say >> trevor: oh, no, no, no, no! no, nancy! "morbidly obese"? whew!

that is definitely shots fired. and you know what's weird is that pelosi started to say it diplomatically, and then it looked like she just gave up in the middle. "especially in the president's, shall we say, weight group-- he's, uh, too fat to live, if you will." and i know trump is going to be mad about this. but the people who are really going to have a hard time with this are the white house staffers who have to explain to trump why nancy would call him morbidly obese when he knows he only weighs 210 pounds. i mean, that's the number the bathroom scale has had on it for years. and, look, there's no denying that trump isn't exactly in shape, but this comment has opened up a can of worms. like, the whole internet is laughing at him, #presidentplump was trending on twitter the whole day. but the truth sthe truth snigh friends, that mocking the president's weight makes a lot of people who aren't trump feel like shit, too.

so, please, just remember: trump's not an asshole because of what goes into his mouth. he's an asshole because of what comes out of it. basically think of it this way: if you weight-shame one person, you weight-shame everyone. and i know i also have to keep that in mind the next time i make fun of eric trump. because there's a lot of good people out there who look like vampires whose dads have blocked their numbers. and i need to be more sensitive to that. i'm going to work on that. but, anyway, that's nancy pelosi. as a democrat, trolling donald trump is her constitutional duty. what's more surprising is that trump's self-medication regime also raised alarms from some of his biggest fans on fox news. >> why would the president be taking hydroxychloroquine? >> i don't know. your guess is as good as mine. i found it to be highly irresponsible for the president to have come out and made that statement. >> there is no reason to listen to people, really, who have no medical knowledge whatsoever pontificate about if it's used for or not. just listen to your doctor. >> if you are in a risky

population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment to ward off the virus, or in a worst-case scenario, you are dealing with the virus and you are in this vulnerable population, it will kill you. i cannot stress enough: this will kill you. so, again, whatever benefits the president says this has, this this is a leap that should not be taken casually by those watching at home or assuming, "well, the president of the united states says it's ok." >> trevor: damn! this-- this is so surreal-- fox news condemning donald trump. this is like doing something so bad your own dog takes off its collar, like, and walks away in disgust. "man, someone needs to rescue you." but this is what it's come to: fox news telling its viewers that if you listen to the president, you might die. i mean, trump has basically turned the presidency into an episode of "jackass"-- they gotta throw that warning up before every press conference. and hearing that from his

favorite tv channel clearly affected trump, because last night he tweeted, "fox news is no longer the same. you have more anti-trump people, by far, than ever before. looking for a new outlet!" and if trump actually goes through with this threat and stops watching fox, it would be the biggest break-up since elon musk and reality? but for people who don't want to see this beautiful relationship end the good news is fox news is trying hard to win the president back >> if you are mad at fox news sometimes pushing back on your administration, worry no more. introducing a bold new fox news lineup for the president. from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m., start your morning off with john hannity. >> the president has been right. we've been right. >> from 9:00 a.m. to noon, your work day begins with sean hannity. >> new york would be dead without donald trump's help, period. >> at noon, get in your worked out with john hannity's karate

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lives, their normal abs, and their normal hairstyles. >> who has the right to tell me i can't get a haircut, i can't go here, i can't go there? >> and there are also healthcare workers who have been protesting the protests. they're trying to convince people to stay home and avoid opening businesses too soon. and these people who actually help us not die have been greeted like this:imented to talk to these brave front-line healthcare workers so north carolina oncology nurse amber brown skypeed me while she was on her way to her third week of counter-protesting. what are you feeling right now? >> it always makes me a little excited, because when i get to, basically, be a foil to the madness that's about to happen. >> reporter: "a foil to the madness that's about to happen." i played that role before. ( laughter ) what are you trying to say to the local government? >> we want to support our governor. our governor supports not reopening yet, and then a staged

reopening. and he agrees until we're doing more testing and until healthcare workers have proper p.p.e., we don't need to reopen. >> you feel like you want your guys' voices heard as opposed to the small number of outside voices being heard? >> yes. >> and, yet, you're the ones wearing masks. >> we're the ones that know the environmentallence of the virus. >> you're starting from a disadvantage here ( laughs ) what do you think their ultimate message is? >> they want a haircut. >> trust me, i want a haircut as bad as the next gierks this has been my brand. but i've been okay for a few weeks. >> thanks for your sacrifice. >> but the messaging from the reopening campaign took a hit when the virus showed a strong sense of irony by infecting one of the group's organizers. but some north carolinaians are comfortable rushing back into the streets. there must be a reason. are people just healthier in north carolina? >> no, not exactly.

we're, you know, the stroke belt. >> that's your 96 name "the stroke belt?" >> yeah. >> to be fair, north carolina is not exactly the healthiest place. even your meat smokes down there ( laughs ) it's been a while since i've been out there. as amber approached, i started to see the usual signs. somebody is coming up behind you. what does that sign say? >> let's see, "bill gates is trash human scum." >> definitely an apple guy there. i get it, the microsoft operating system sometimes is difficult. >> here we are... here they are in the parking lot. "tyrants answer to god." "reopen." yeah, there's really not as many people as there were last time. >> is that a good sign or a bad sign? do you think the reopen people are looking around like, "i see our numbers are down? do we want to look into that?" so why are these nurses putting themselves in harm's way? second-year nursing student carrie shopshire has also been coming to these events for past three weeks.

>> we do not believe what these people are saying all of north carolinaians believe. and that's why we're here. >> what do you think most north carolinaians joobl that we need to stay home and continue to flaent the curve. we have done a great job so far and we need to keep doing it. >> she's right. two-thirds of america are concerned about lifting the restrictions too early. >> last week, they stormed a general assembly, and so we set up on purpose in front of it before they got there. the police are not allowing them to come down, as long as we are physically in front of it. >> three weeks ago, the situation looked like this: but this time, the police keep the two groups apart. so the police are separating you from the reopen protesters right now to keep everybody apart? >> correct. >> what i'm hearing is a cooperated governmental effort to keep people safe was effective? >> yeah.

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kerry, give us an idea of what you do in the foster care system, and what you're trying to achieve. >> casa nyc, we are one of a network of nearly 1,000 casa programs nationally. we operate in new york city. each one is independently operated. but we leverage citizen volunteers to advocate for children and youth in foster care. so judges appoint us to the cases of kids in foster care when a judge is concerned that a child maybe isn't getting their needs met by the system, or they're at risk of being stuck in the system too long or they're aging out of the foster care system. in new york, that's at 21, without having what they need to live independently and successfully. so casa nyc recruits and trains and supervises volunteers to do that advocacy work, because our volunteers are able to really spend a lot more time, provide one-on-one attention to each child, where the case workers

and the lawyers-- even, you know, the ones who work really hard-- and they do-- but they just couldn't possibly, you know, spend as much time in a day on every child on their case load. >> trevor: it seems like a really complicated issue. you're trying to fulfill multiple jobs in a person's life. i mean, housing, education, income,, you know, preparedness for the world. brianna, you are actually from the system. you-- you lived your life as a foster child and grew up out of the foster care system and went on to work as a chef. tell me-- tell me a little bit about the foster-- you know, the fostering world. like what, are some misconceptions that people have about you or your life that you wish they would understand? >> >> that teens are stuck in their ways. i think times when i was a kid in foster care, and it was hard for them to find me a foster home. you know, i was waiting for a

new foster home and, you know, no one's going to be there. no one's going to come get me. people think kids are coming from these place and put in their homes and going to be happy. we're not going to be happy. even though we were traumatized in places or hurt in those places those are places we know. you took me from my family and put me into a system with a bunch of strangers and expect me toa behave. and you diagnose me with behaviors because i act out. so >> trevor: if you-- if you don't mind me asking, how did you end up in the foster care system? i know everyone has a different story and it determines a lot of how their life rolls out. >> okay, so, i first got into foster care when i was 14 going into 15. basically my mom was like, she's not listening to me. she's been running away. it's like basically giving your parent the opportunity to be like, "my kid is acting up. here's my kid. i don't want to be, you know,

involved anymore." i was involved in a lot of different things as a kid. nistles a gang. i was running away. and my mom, she wasn't seeing that-- seeing any of that for me. so one day the cops knocked on my door. and i remember feeling like i'm in trouble for something else when really it was, like, she said, "they're here for you. get your stuff pup have to go." and i remember feeling that day like she had given up on me in a sense. from foster care my life was just-- it was like 15 different homes, a lack of connection to foster parents because of my swullity, because, you know, some people are in it for their own things. they're in it for the money or they're-- they're in it because they feel like they're doing something good. they can talk about themselves and say, "i'm doing something good." but really, when they look on the inside of the surface, it's not reallyue know, it's not-- it's not all the way what it should be. >> trevor: kerry, on your side, you are always fighting to improve the foster care system. you're always fighting against

the odds. because it is an imperfect system, because it is born from an imperfect world, parents who are spraipted from their kids, either forcefully or because they've chosen to be. kids who struggle to connect with families, eeght because they have issues beforehand or the families are not good at developing those connections. what are the ways you think the foster care systems can be improved, and what are the difficulties in improving the system. >> i think one of the things that is important for people tond, of the more than 400,000 kids in foster care in new york city, children come into foster care with allegations of abuse and neglect against their parents. the vast majority of those cases are not physical abuse or sexual abuse, they're neglect. 75% nationally are neglect cases. and that neglect is often very closely tied to deep poverty, trauma, things like domestic

violence, and substance abuse and mental illness that are related to trauma and that are really related to structural inequities and structural racism. and i think in new york city, we're on the right track because we've reducing the foster care census from 8,000 from close to 50,000 in the early 90s but providing more and more preventive services, by spending more effort going into homes and helping families resolve the problems and resolve the issues in their homes, rather than just jumping to take those kids away. but we still have a long way to go. but it's really difficult because the system has a hard time recruiting foster parentses. >> trevor: right, i can imagine. >> especially foster parents who have really the means, the capacity, the time, and the energy to spend really taking care of kids who have experienced trauma. >> trevor: right. >> they've always experienced trauma. so the behavioral issues bri is talking about come from someplace. it's not because she's a bad person. and, you know, she has been able

to, i think, with her incredible resilience, and also the support of the parents who ultimately adopted her and organizations that she's been able to really connect to. so it's really about helping i think the most-- i think the most important thing we can do is make sure those young people, if they can't be reunited with their parents-- which happens the majority of the time-- but if they can't be, they need to be connected to permanent supports, to permanent family member and adoptions. it's hard for older kids to get adopted or lifelong supports. sometimes a family member, it doesn't matter who it, it's somebody who is there for them for the long term. >> trevor: your type of story could so often end in tragedy, and, yet, here you are, as you said, working as a chef. i know coronavirus has taken away your job, including millions of others. but you are in a position where you took your love of food and

became a chef. you're a spoken wonder poeut now. you built a life for yourself from the many pieces that were dealt to you. is there a reason that you think you got to where you got to? were there any positives from the foster care system that helped you maybe? or do you think you got there despite foster care system? >> it's because of the foster care sbecause a lot of the times you're-- you get put in situation where's you can't change anything. so my mindset is am i going to stay mad about it? am i going to stay stagnant? or am i going to be better than the situation i'm going through? and a lot of the times i find myself being resilient, even when it hirtsz, you know. for me, i go by this quote, "failure isn't falling down. it's staying down. so remember to pick yourself up." so i just try to pick myself up. cooking makes me happy. i can make people smile through food. poetry helps me teach people what my story is or what i've been through in life.

and it helps me connect to others. i think for me the biggest thing has been picking myself up and inspiring others. for me, that's something-- it makes me happy because i know that i'm doing something. i'm teaching someone something, you know. i'm giving someoning in good to eat, you know ( laughs ). >> trevor: it really is amazing to get to where you've gotten through considering what you've been through. thank you so much your your time. thank you kerry and brianna both. i hope things get better. maybe we'll have another conversation some day and say, "hey, we managed to fix some of those issues. thank you for the time. >> thank you for having us. thank you, kerry moles and brianna hayes. and if you want to get involved with casa, check out casaforchildren.org. well, that's our show for tonight. before we go: the covid pandemic has taken a serious toll on many people's mental health. and here in the u.s., the disaster distress helpline is

trying to address this crisis. they've got counselors who are trained to meet the mental health needs of this unique situation. and if you would like to help them, all you need to do is donate whatever you can. and if you'd like to support new yorkers in crisis, please donate to "nyc well," which is also providing free, confidential mental health support. until tomorrow, stay safe out there, wash your hands, and remember: food never spoils. it just develops new flavors. now, here it is, your moment of zen. ♪ ♪ >> take a look at some of these people. literally the day before i fired them, they were saying they should be fired. and as soon as i fired them, they said, "what did you fire them for? that was a terrible thing to do?" it's a disgrace what's happening in our country.

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